Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman,
"New York 1960, Architecture And Urbanism Between The Second World War
And The Bicentennial," (The Monacelli Press, 1995),
"a kind of aggressive, self-referential Modernism that had hitherto been
largely absent from Manhattan." "To complement the sweeping curve..., a
'plazetta' was created at the corner entrance - essentially a tiny
landscaped taxi drop-off of a type virtually unknown in New York
apartment house design, where corners had traditionally been filled with
solid building. Shocking though the building's shape was, so reminiscent
of Morris Lapidus's Fontainebleau Hotel (1954) in Miami, Florida, it had
its admirers. In 1979 Paul Goldberger praised its 'swooping curve,'
saying it was 'not a bad way at all for a large avenue to meet Central
Park.'"
Carter B. Horsley